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"In a time when right wing conservatives of many churches condemn the lifestyle of homosexuality, some excluding gays and lesbians from worship while perpetuating a message of hate, St. Joan's has been steadfast in welcoming their GLBT parishioners. A monthly potluck support group run by Ron Joki and Theresa Healy allows for an outreach of connectiveness. An annual GLBT spiritual retreat explores biblical readings, meditations, rituals, play and musical skits with guest performers and speakers that confront negativity, challenges exclusivity and affirms acceptance and healing. This very website includes a GLBT section devoted to updates of relative news, GLBT families,...

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops met recently in Denver for their June plenary conference. This year's meeting, originally said to be a retreat, was held behind closed doors. The usual visitors and observers were not invited. Each bishop was warned not to respond to reporter's requests to give interviews. It is well known that a large number of Catholic faithful have petitioned their bishops to address the scandal of sacrilegious reception of the Eucharist by manifest sinners who obstinately persist in their grave sin. They asked why c. 915 of the Code of Canon Law is not being...

Among the oldest active archbishops are Cardinals Eagen, Keeler, McCarrick, and Maida. All will probably be retired within three years. This isn't shocking, since being a Cardinal is a "senior" position. But what is interesting is that there are a handful of bishops who have been made archbishops at a very young age. Archbishop Dolan is an archbishop at only 54 years old. The next youngest are Burke of St. Louis, Chaput of Denver, and O'Malley of Boston. These three oversee the prime dioceses in their ecclesial regions. And the next youngest, Meyers, also oversees a major archdiocese, Newark. Dolan,...

<p>Newark Archbishop John J. Myers yesterday defended his position on whether Catholic politicians who support abortion rights should receive Communion, calling himself a "moderate" on the issue.</p> <p>Myers said he believes politicians who support abortion rights should not receive Communion, but unlike other, more hard-line bishops, he said he also thinks Communion should not be denied if the politicians do seek it.</p>

Verlyne Gray had always stood by her man, convicted pedophile priest James Porter -- until she divorced him and turned into a witness for the state. But in Bristol County (Mass.) Superior Court Monday, Porter had a new woman in his corner, 70-year-old ex-nun Anne Milner, who displayed an engagement ring and said she is ready to marry the former Minnesota priest.

During the last 18 months, at least 150 Catholic priests from 56 dioceses who were removed or retired facing credible sexual abuse allegations have quietly moved away, according to a church-sponsored report released two days ago. In at least 138 cases, according to the report, the perpetrators went to other American dioceses. In at least ten cases, offending priests left the country: Metuchen NJ, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, San Antonio (4), San Bernardino and Santa Rosa CA (3). In at least four cases, bishops claimed they had lost track of the abusers: Brooklyn, New York, Philadelphia and Santa Rosa, and...

Cheekbones And Hormones; 10:00 Mass Memo To: All priests, bishops, cardinals, etc. who have decision making ability in regards to the massFrom: JB Doubtless, average CatholicRe: Requests to keep me coming back every Sunday You guys want us to come back, right? I thought so. Then please, for the love of all that's holy, stop messin' with the freaking service! What am I talking about? Well, here's a short list I compiled after today's mass: 1. No extra peace session at the beginning. Don't make us introduce ourselves to our fellow parishoners okay? We're Minnesotans, and as such don't really...

St. Petersburg Diocese Announces End Of Regular Exposition Of The Blessed Sacrament. Culture/Society News Keywords: EUCHARISTIC ADORATION, ST. PETERSBURGSource: The WandererPublished: 9/7/00 Author: Thomas A. DroleskyPosted on 09/13/2000 09:01:19 PDT by marshmallow ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Fourteen years after the Bishops' Committee on the Liturgy attempted a frontal assault upon all forms of solemn eucharistic adoration, whether periodic or perpetual, which had grown tremendously in this country during the early 1980s, efforts to attack the tradition and the theology of such adoration continue. This reporter documented the misrepresentation of eucharistic adoration which a priest in the Diocese of Davenport,...

HOME | ABOUT US | PRESS | EVENTS | PEOPLE | ISSUES | NEWSLETTER | CONTACT US | SEARCH SCANDAL IN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH: BEHIND THE SMOKE AND MIRRORS IS A COVERUP OF HOMOSEXUAL PRIESTS AND BISHOPS 10/28/2003 9:11:00 AM By Fr. Charles Dahlby - www.RCF. org "IT IS BETTER THAT SCANDALS ARISE THAN THE TRUTH BE SUPPRESSED!" - Pope St. Gregory the Great   During the Dallas bishops conference in 2002, Bishop Wilton Gregory admitted the church was threatened by a homosexual subculture in the priesthood. However, the directives coming out of that conference focused only on...

<p>So before Saturday&#8217;s auction at Becker&#8217;s Moving and Storage Warehouse, the four longtime Sacred Heart Cathedral parishioners kept guard over several 12-foot pews that didn&#8217;t have scratches or missing legs.</p> <p>“ I just thought it would be nice to have a pew,” shrugged Rosemary Hahn of Perinton as she wandered down a row. She pointed to a prayer book holder on the back of a pew. “ My husband, years ago, worked hard to border and put those in.”</p>

While the Catholic Bishops claim to have been "enlightened" and say they are doing everything they can to protect our children, nothing could be further from the truth. Bishop Gerald Andrew Gettelfinger of Evansville Indiana, one of seven bishops who voted against the "Zero Tolerance" policy which called for the removal of any priest guilty of abusing one child, believes that an admitted "sex addict," registered sex offender, and convicted felon is the best man to run the diocese's diaconate program. "Father" Jean F. Vogler, who served jail time for possession of dozens of video tapes containing child pornography, who...

A FEW MONTHS AGO the Jesuit-run America magazine ran a smartly-designed full-page ad headlined with a pithy statement in large bold typeface: "Small is Good." The ad was for the American College of Louvain (ACL), the seminary in Belgium run directly by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the oldest national seminary for Americans, founded in 1857. "When it comes to business, bigger is usually better," the ad states. "When it comes to Church, does the same principle apply?" Heavens no, the ad claims, and ACL happens to be living proof-or so it claims: "For almost ten years, our...

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS VATICAN CITY, JUN 18, 2003 (VIS) - The Holy Father: - Accepted the resignation to the pastoral care of the diocese of Phoenix, U.S.A., of Bishop Thomas J. O'Brien, in conformity with Canon 401, para 2, of the Code of Canon Law. NER:RE/.../IBRAHIM:O'BRIEN VIS 030618 (80)

SONS of EARTH, MALE SPIRIT interfaith retreat for gay, bisexual and questioning men June 13-15, 2003, Bethel Horizons Retreat Center, Dodgeville, Wisconsin. This retreat is about listening, deeply to God's voice, to our own gifted and wounded selves, and to the voices of our gay, bisexual and questioning brothers. God speaks to us in many subtle voices which can be heard in those times during the retreat in which silence and stillness is shared among us; in entering the sacred space of our morning prayer, in sitting together in the quiet that comes after singing and moving together in the...

<p>Boston-area Catholics, increasingly alienated by the sexual abuse crisis that has rocked the church, say the characteristic they would most like to see in a new archbishop is openness to change, according to a new Boston Globe poll.</p> <p>Overwhelming majorities of Catholics living in the Archdiocese of Boston still have favorable opinions of their own parish priests and of Pope John Paul II, and 41 percent say their faith is very important to their everyday lives.</p>

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - A gay couple who became parents of quadruplets after enlisting the help of a surrogate mother had their 3-month-old children baptized Saturday in a Roman Catholic church. Father Paul Prabell blessed the men, Thomas Dysarz and Michael Meehan, and baptized their daughter and three sons at Lexington's Cathedral of Christ the King. "This is what Christ would do," said Meehan, the quadruplets' biological father. The babies "are God's children. That's how the church should view it." Saturday's ceremony was attended by about 30 friends and relatives. The mother, 23-year-old Brooke Verity, has said she thinks Dysarz...

Jim Likoudis (Dad) & president-emeritus of Catholics United for the Faith has written a book of Christian Unity specifically aimed at the full reconciliation of the separated Byzantine Greco-Slav chuches. Paul Likoudis (Son) & news editor of The Wanderer has written a book addressing "The U.S. Bishops, Pedophile Scandals and the Homosexual Agenda." The Divine Primacy of the Bishop of Rome and Modern Eastern Orthodoxy: Letters to a Greek Orthodox on the Unity of the ChurchBy JAMES LIKOUDIS TITLE The Divine Primacy of the Bishop of Rome and Modern Eastern Orthodoxy: Letters to a Greek Orthodox on the Unity of...

BOOK REVIEW of: AMCHURCH COMES OUT by Paul Likoudis AMCHURCH COMES OUT is boldly proclaimed by the title of a new book by Paul Likoudis, that is subtitled “The U.S. Bishops, Pedophile Scandals and the Homosexual Agenda.” So what is Amchurch, who is Paul Likoudis and why should you care? First and foremost, you should care if you believe that Jesus Christ is indeed “the way, and the truth, and the life” as Christ Himself proclaimed in John 14:6. People of other faiths or those who do not adhere to a particular religion, but live according to a moral code...

Addressing A Scandal . . .Bishops’ Actions Expose More Corruption By MICHAEL S. ROSE and Paul Likoudis   DALLAS — The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ summer meeting in Dallas closed with the bishops approving a "Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People," a shovelful of ground meat thrown to a media pack and victims of clerical sexual abuse demanding some sort of response to decades of clerical misconduct and episcopal cover-up.   The bishops placated almost no one. Critics assailed them from both the left and right and in the long run, the only likely lasting results from the meeting...

Fr. Rueda Book Warned of Scandals Almost 20 Years Ago - Rueda Persecuted, Facts Ignored DALLAS, June 13, 2002 (LSN.ca) - The US Bishops meeting on the sexual abuse scandals which commenced in Dallas yesterday was addressed by a record six lay persons. Among the presenters were 3 victims of abuse and one expert in dealing with such cases. However there were two lay persons addressing the bishops who were in the words of USCCB President two lay people deeply concerned about the impact of the current crisis on the Church." LifeSite was very concerned with the selections since both...